So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.